Grrr, my psychology class

[bethiesmama]

Today in my psychology class we were talking about drugs and their effects on the body and development and stuff, and vaccines came up.  Another mom in my class mentioned that she thinks vaccines have something to do with autism, so I spoke up to back her up and say that I agree that vaccines have something to do with it, because I saw it happen to my own daughter.  Awful big coincidence for my daughter to go in for her 1 yr appt a happy healthy toddler and leave the hospital a week later making no eye contact and having lost the words she was already saying.  Well the teacher said, it's proven that vaccines are safe and besides you wouldnt want to risk your kids life due to the fear that your child might be one of the very few children who wind up with autism.  He was going on for a few minutes and had most of the class nodding in agreement and then he immediately finishes with "but we dont have time to discuss this further.  WE need to move on,"  and goes into the next subject.  I was highly irritated.  We were having a class discussion and it pertained to the topic, but since 2 of us have a mind of our own he had to make us sound ignorant and end the discussion.  This may sound paranoid but more and more I feel like the education I am receiving is based on brainwashing and not so much on true facts or the opportunity to explore different concepts and free thinking.  Anyway I know this is dumb, but it bugged me and i needed to have my little petty vent.   

[JasonsMom2007]

I HATE when teachers do things like that!

My cousin's son's autism was definitley caused by vaccines.  The vaccines left him with hundreds of seizures a day which caused brain damage and therefore severe autism.  Can't believe she still chooses to vaccinate her baby girl after this happened to her son :(

[outstandingLove]

I would personally write that teacher a letter. I wouldn't attack. But he clearly said things that are not true. One of the very few children to get ASD? uh HELLO. new flash. it's what? 1 in every 60 kids now?

I would write him a letter but most of it would be the research i have done on vaccines. Proof that they have not tested the vaccines long enough to have any conclusive idea on their safety and how the ASD rate and the recommended vaccines rate seems to go hand in hand etc etc. I would hate to let this teacher tell others more misinformation.

[CurvyMommato1]

You should ask your teacher how much research he does on this himself. I bet he couldn't give you any good credible sources on anything. From my own experience, college teachers these days are a waste of a salary. So far from 2 years of college all of mine have been old enough to be my grandparents, with no updated knowledge at all, and I wind up having to teach myself the information. Too bad you couldn't put your prof. in his place, but you wouldn't want to affect your grade over this.